[…] squad responsible for the personal security of the President and for carrying out hostage rescues. They had been given the secret dossier in December 1982 by John Wilson, the operational head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch. Although initially seen as a spectacular success, doubts soon arose about the real importance of the three ‘terrorists’ […]
[…] directed into such a policy at the whim of one man and his coterie? Because our political system has undergone a quiet revolution, that is why. Harold Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real […]
[…] Finally the C4 Director of Programmes Liz Forgan and I agreed a deal: if a former British prime minister would come on the programme, Adams could appear. Wilson had Alzheimers; Callaghan never liked us; and Edward Heath, who later appeared twice on After Dark,(15) couldn’t make it. So that was the end of it. […]
[…] are crap. Steve Dorril and I ran into this view on our first trip to the Big Nowhere to talk to the higher media about the Wallace- Wilson material. In late ’86, just before Wallace got out of prison, we were invited to see some people at BBC’s Newsnight. We had been told by […]
[…] were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call the tune? Only the misty-eyed romantics would believe for one moment […]
[…] of wide areas of body. You will recall that you were going to carry out some tests on RAF volunteers who were to be provided by Captain Wilson here….it is becoming increasingly urgent to obtain more information regarding the emergency beta tolerance for wide areas of body, both in relation to atomic explosions and […]
[…] money’; and, unusually honest for a politician, he notes: ‘So bad was the economic situation inherited by Labour in 1974…………it would have been a miracle if the Wilson and Callaghan administrations that followed had been able to correct it in a short five years.’ (p. 146) He gives a fairly detailed account of the […]
[…] And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the first Wilson government. There’s this on George Brown while Labour’s Foreign Secretary: ‘….he was also particularly friendly to America. Several times he went along with Washington’s proposals even […]
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[…] radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] appears to give some credibility to claims made by Mr Wilson, following his resignation, that MI5 contained a group of right-wing officers who were incapable of distinguishing between socialism and communism, and were plotting against the government.’ […]
